Keywords:
Famines History 19th century
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Famines History 20th century
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Europe Economic conditions 19th century
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Europe Economic conditions 20th century
Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction: Famines and the making of heritage -- Retrieving famine pasts -- Three areas of heritage making -- Transnational perspectives and directions -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Education -- 1. Challenges and opportunities in teaching European famines: A transnational comparison -- Famine education and textbook analysis -- Victims, perpetrators, and implicated subjects -- Transnational perspectives: Opportunities beyond the textbook -- Future directions -- Notes -- References -- 2. Conveying Soviet famines: Representations of hunger as mass atrocity during the Holodomor and the Leningrad Blockade in post-war USSR Textbooks -- History textbooks as historical sources and their position in the Soviet dictatorship -- Soviet famines, mass atrocity, and collective memory -- The Holodomor in Soviet textbooks -- The Leningrad Blockade in Soviet textbooks -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. New futures for famine pasts?: Teaching Ireland's Great Famine in Ontario and Quebec -- Religion, language, and the development of school systems -- From Corn Laws to crowded vessels: Textbook representations of the Famine and its diaspora -- Cultural heritage and the opportunities for curriculum renewal -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Memory and commemoration -- 4. Relative absence: Dutch memory culture and monuments of the Hunger Winter of 1944-45 -- Dutch memorial culture -- Monuments of the Dutch Hunger Winter -- Explaining relative absence -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 5. 'We went through a lot that ... cannot be discussed, cannot be written': Remembering the Greek Famine of the early 1940s -- The famine and its memory -- Local memory -- Individual memories and everyday memory -- Evolving memory: The economic crisis.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781040088050
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=31360968
DDC:
363.8094
Language:
English
Note:
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